Post by pavel on Jan 23, 2016 3:10:41 GMT -6
The Transportation Security Administration released statistics on the number of firearms seized at airports in 2015 today and half of the top 10 airports for weapon seizures were in Texas.
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport led the Texan pack with 153 seizures last year, followed by 100 weapon seizures at George Bush Intercontinental in Houston; 57 at Dallas Love Field; 54 at Austin-Bergstrom International and 52 at William P. Hobby in Houston. In total, TSA confiscated 416 of the 2,652 guns in Texas airports last year, 15 percent of all weapons in carry-on bags.
In a blog post on the TSA site, the agency says 83 percent of those guns were loaded and that security gate confiscations were up 20 percent.
In addition, the agency found other understandably prohibited items like black powder, a live flashbang grenade, ammunition, fireworks, plenty of Batarangs, road flares, Ron Swanson-esque replica landmines, a sickle, (in one instance) live plastic explosives, some shuriken, or ninja stars, and even a deli slicer.
Read more: kut.org/post/texans-it-seems-really-bring-guns-airports
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport led the Texan pack with 153 seizures last year, followed by 100 weapon seizures at George Bush Intercontinental in Houston; 57 at Dallas Love Field; 54 at Austin-Bergstrom International and 52 at William P. Hobby in Houston. In total, TSA confiscated 416 of the 2,652 guns in Texas airports last year, 15 percent of all weapons in carry-on bags.
In a blog post on the TSA site, the agency says 83 percent of those guns were loaded and that security gate confiscations were up 20 percent.
In addition, the agency found other understandably prohibited items like black powder, a live flashbang grenade, ammunition, fireworks, plenty of Batarangs, road flares, Ron Swanson-esque replica landmines, a sickle, (in one instance) live plastic explosives, some shuriken, or ninja stars, and even a deli slicer.
Read more: kut.org/post/texans-it-seems-really-bring-guns-airports